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This chapter analyzes the Scriptures in several hymns prescribed for Holy Wednesday, whose central theme is bravery as exemplified by the sinful woman who anointed Jesus’s feet (Luke 7:36–50). The gospel story was turned into a liturgical hymn, known as the Kassia hymn, after its composer, the ninth-century female hymnographer Kassia of Constantinople. The sinful woman’s bravery is contrasted with Eve’s timidity and shamefulness. Unlike the sinful woman who approached Jesus’s feet seeking mercy, Eve, after having sinned, hid herself among the trees of the Garden of Eden at the sound of God’s “feet” walking through the garden (Gen 3:8). The “feet,” whose “striking sound” (krotos) Eve heard, as Kassia notes, were the same as Jesus’s feet which the sinful woman saw, touched, anointed, and kissed. The contrast between Eve and the sinful woman points to God’s revelation that moves from the “sonic” (Eve) to “visual” (the sinful woman) phase. |
